Creepy forebodings

Different strokes

Recent work in the field of differentiation puts forth new facts about DIF, a morphogen

Timing the timepiece

On your palms

Better customer service, more convenience for the salesperson and on-the-spot deals are now possible with the help of palmtop computers

Archaeology goes hi-tech

Scholars need not touch ancient finds to study and store them, as computers take over the arduous task

Now robomops!

Mystery behind the dazzle

Far away from the sun but exceptionally bright, the comet Hale-Bopp has baffled a lot of scientists who are struggling to explain its strange …

Oily trap for a quark

If caught, it could spell trouble for the Standard Model of particle physics; although success has eluded most scientists, a group of relentless …

Atomic measurement

Coppering the net

Fibre optic cables,, though touted as 21st century's big hope, can still be given a run by the copper wires in the race for providing ultra-fast …

Bridging yawns

Sounds bizarre, but a new design concept promises to bridge gaps more than 3.48 km apart

Out to get 'em

Tell-tale genes

Cloying contraceptive

Magnetic trap

A new method for detecting fingerprints at the scene of crime is sure to give criminals some second thoughts

Flying gamble

Computers have played second fiddle to analogue techniques in safety-critical systems and though airlines are switching to fly-by-wire technology,…

Robots from Lilliput

The s- and d- of it

While the conflicting theories and functions to explain the phenomenon of high temperature superconductivity point to scientists' continuing …

A model in dispute

Fermilab's observations of large numbers of hard and violent collisions in an accelerator brings the revered Standard Model of particle physics …

It's the P6 now

Network

Passwords passe

Even for adroit forgers, goings will become hard as a new fingerprint recognition system may replace passwords in the near future

Space rope trick

An experiment to tap the power of outer cosmos fails as the link cable breaks

Cyber Sniffer

Pole track